After an absence of 6,000 years, wild bison are returning to the UK.  

Donald Trump announces wholesale revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act that will drastically reduce the public’s ability to influence or halt environmentally damaging projects like pipelines, highways, and power plants.  

Oil and gas companies owned by generous donors to the GOP or whose executives have personal connections with political appointees at the Interior Department have raked in huge sums of pandemic relief aid.  

Women exposed to gas flaring—the burning off of unwanted gas at drilling sites or production facilities—are 50 percent more likely to give birth prematurely.  

A California judge overrules the Trump administration’s attempt to gut the Obama-era Waste Prevention Rule, which outlawed venting, flaring, and leaking of gas from drilling operations on federal and tribal lands. The rule will go back into effect in 90 days.  

Burger King is adding lemongrass to the diets of the cattle raised to make its hamburgers, claiming that doing so will reduce their daily methane emissions by a third. 

US deaths from COVID-19 pass 138,000. Two-thirds of the world's new cases now come from four countries: the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa. 

Global fertility rates are crashing. The populations of 23 nations including Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and Thailand are expected to halve by the end of the century. Human population is forecast to peak in 2064 at 9.73 billion people.  

After assessing the more than 100,000 varieties of plants and animals on its Red List of endangered and threatened species, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature can’t find any that it can move to a lower-threat category. 

David Vela, acting head of the National Park Service, defends the agency’s many Confederate monuments. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) introduces legislation that would punish jurisdictions that fail to protect them. 

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt begins the process of building the “National Garden of America’s Heroes” proposed by President Trump, which is to include statues of 31 national figures including Ronald Reagan, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Billy Graham, Audie Murphy, and Antonin Scalia.